I have a Nvidia 7100 GeForce and i get about 50 FPS i want more !!! how do i do it what Graphics card o i have to buy to make my fps go higher i have 4GB ram DD2 please tell me and how much would i cost? And do or can i upgrade it ?
i have 120 paund and my frend told me to buy 8800 GTX Nvidia GeForce with 2gb ram in it. From the saund is good but what do yous think i would get more fps with it ? and it actualy costs only 120-130paund how do i know it will fit my pc? tell me please and big thanks!
Post your other hardware, they cant tell ya anything right now. If you have a shitty CPU there is no need getting a 8800GTX or a 9800GTX.
Post your other hardware like CPU, RAM and mobo. Then they can tell if its wise to do so.
Yeah, go ahead, if you get at least a geforce 9600gt you will be able to play lots of new games like GTA4 and Fallout 3 with decent FPS, LFS will be over 100 all the time.
If your PC is a prebuilt (Dell, HP, etc.), it probably has a crap PSU that just about runs the hardware you have at the moment. Plus they usually can't be changed, at least without spending a fortune on one from the manufacturer. A 9-series will need a fair bit more juice than a 7100, my 9800GTX has a 500W recomendation. And the 7100 is a major bottleneck if you have a Q6600, so you really should upgrade if you want to play newer games
BTW, throwing more RAM at it won't help. You're using 32-bit, so the maximum RAM any one program can use is 2GB
It's 3.1GB, however Graphical memory is subtracted from that also for the total that Windows will recognize. Each application can only use 2 GB of it though (IIRC)
No. The addressing limit on 32bit Windows is exactly 4GB (2^32 bytes). From that it addresses main RAM, graphics RAM and a few other things, so it's likely you'll never see more than about 3.5GB. The each app only being able to use 2GB is right, though.
2^32 = 4,294,967,296. 4,294,967,296 / 1,024^2 = 4,096 bytes
(Incidentally, 64-bit has a theoretical limit of 16TB of RAM )
You'll need to check with your system specs as to what power the PSU is. New cards (the 9xxx series Nvidia, with the 8800GTX not far behind) need much more power than a 7100. I'm not sure on Acer, but I know that Dell and HP use odd PSUs that are a headwrecker to source and replace at times.
You'll need, at minimum, a 500w PSU for an 8800GTX - the 8800GT is almost as fast and will need a lower PSU (but you will still need a replacement PSU).
Well i've seen an 8800GTX (albeit with a low-end AMD) running on a 500w PSU.
From personal experience i've had a 580w running an 8800GTX - but I swapped from an 8800GTX to an 8800GT and saw no difference FPS wise - but it uses much less power / makes less heat.
If you don't know what PSU stands for, don't even think of upgrading. Take your computer to an upgrade store where they know what they're doing, or buy a new PC.